Hi.I´ve been using GS for long time,but today i can´t find answer...so here is my first post
I bought Akai MPD 18,which works pretty well with battery 3,or kontakt 4.But battery is not able to slice beats automatically(or i don´t know how) ,and kontakt have just keyboard...not visible pads.
Does exist some handy vst sampler fitted for mpd´s ?
Thanks in advance for tips,and excuse my simple-bad english....reading is easier then writing

I made an MPD Preset for Slicex (on my MPD26), I can toss it to you. Does automatic beat slicing or you can do your own chopping, offers articulation, filters, pitch, gain, pan etc. for all samples, also does midi dumping if you want to use the timing of the loop with your own sounds (or blend with your own sounds).

Will any of these address the EXS24's problem with not being able to make each individual sample/pad/key mono? Meaning, if you hit the pad, and then hit the same pad again, it starts the sample over and cuts off the previously sounding sample?

It seems there is no good way to do it in the EXS24 in Logic. You can put the whole sampler on mono, or put it on weird amounts of voices, but you can't individually decide which pads are mono and not. Which one of these guys will help with that?

Battery is probably ur best bet. It's automatically slices Rex loops. Don't think it slices just audio loops, at least it doesn't as easily as it does Rex loops. But, more than a few daw's have this capability, whether your slicing at the transient or in 1/8, 1/4 notes. Etc.

I haven't use the other samplers.
But I do know that battery is pretty much THE industry standard drum sampler for a reason. And it's not just marketing.

Will any of these address the EXS24's problem with not being able to make each individual sample/pad/key mono? Meaning, if you hit the pad, and then hit the same pad again, it starts the sample over and cuts off the previously sounding sample?

It seems there is no good way to do it in the EXS24 in Logic. You can put the whole sampler on mono, or put it on weird amounts of voices, but you can't individually decide which pads are mono and not. Which one of these guys will help with that?

In the edit window you can check the box that says "one shot" for the whole sample to play. Deselect for it to stop when you release the pad or key.

Also, at the top left of the exs 24 are the mono, poly buttons for the whole exs 24 patch.

In the edit window you can check the box that says "one shot" for the whole sample to play. Deselect for it to stop when you release the pad or key.

Also, at the top left of the exs 24 are the mono, poly buttons for the whole exs 24 patch.

Yeah but I don't want one shot. If you have a 2 second sample, and you hit the pad twice, each 1 second apart, you end up with a second of overlap inbetween the samples.

If you uncheck it, then you have to hold down the pad the entire time you want the sample to sound.

I also think I made it pretty clear that the mono/poly buttons aren't the answer because that effects the entire set of samples. Meaning if you put it on mono, yeah, now you can hit the pad twice and the second time it will cut off the sound from the first hit, but now you can never hit two pads at the same time!!

I think it really matters how much you want to spend and how satisfied you are with your current DAW.

The cheapest route would be go with Poise ($49) and use Reaper (free if you're a cheapskate). You can auto-slice in Reaper and drag-n-drop the slices into Poise's drum pads.

You could also use some of the other VST drum samplers (Giest, Battery, etc.), but in my opinion unless you're completely dead set on using your current sequencer you might as well spend the extra $100 (Giest is around $200) and just get Ableton Live.

With Ableton you can easily auto-slice audio to a drum rack. The workflow in session view is easy and very, very MPC-like (pattern based sequencing). Plus you'll have 10x more flexibility since the drum rack is part of the program, not a plugin. You can also record and mix like a regular DAW, perform your beats live, or even DJ with it. The only downside is for most people there's a slight learning curve with the GUI.

In retrospect that really seems like the best option giving the power and flexibility you get with it. The fact that you get a full DAW and not '1 trick pony" has it's advantages. Great suggestion man.

Shortcircuit. I use version 1, and even without a pad interface it's great.
I've used it with a trigger finger. I'd imagine it works fine with an mpd as well.
It's also free. Version 2 has a pad interface, but is unfinished, and might be buggy?
I just stuck with version 1 because of the good, and fast manual slicing.

Thanks again for all your replies.I know ,that i can use MPD with any sampler.I want 16 pads sampler just for "order" in workflow....and ableton is great software,but i´ve been using cubase for 10 years...so i´m a bit lazy to learn new daw...so therefore i want vst.For somebody ableton can be an ideal solution of course.Peace